The affidavit, filed by B C Joshi, Director in the Ministry of Home Affairs, said the CAA does not confer any arbitrary and unguided powers on the executive as the citizenship to the persecuted minorities of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh would be granted in a manner as specified under the law governing grant of citizenship.
Rao was taken into custody in Hyderabad on Saturday after his house arrest ended on November 15 and his petition to quash the transit remand was disposed of by a court there on November 16.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, however, told reporters that no one would be allowed to block devotees from proceeding to Sabarimala.
Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Department of Telecommunication seeking its response as to how to block websites with pornographic content in the country, particularly those featuring child pornography.
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to direct the Central Board of Secondary Education to conduct a fresh All India Engineering Entrance Examination, which was mired in controversy after its question papers were leaked.
A top US university is "walking away" from the $3 million grants it received to establish endowed chairs in India studies after alleged that the donors had "extreme right-wing notions".
It was a many splendoured political career, which ended at the presidential palace. But the prime minister's post eluded him, even though it was a position he openly aspired for.
The Himachal Pradesh high court ordered a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each to the parents of 24 Hyderabad engineering college students who were washed away in Beas River at Thalot in Mandi district on June 8.
The Supreme Court Monday asked Aligarh Muslim University not to implement the decision to reserve 50 per cent quota for students belonging to minority community till the pendancy of the matter.
"As far as the demands of some students to shift the NIT campus out of Srinagar is considered, let me make it clear that it won't be possible," she said.
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A local court in Bihar's Saran district declared Meena Devi, the principal of the government primary school where 23 students died of food poisoning, a proclaimed offender in the mid-day meal case.
The SC ruled that such counselling can be done 'only' by the state government.
The SC said it appeared that the entire test and the system was tainted.
Madhubala Mandal, a widow, returned home to her hearing impaired daughter on Wednesday evening, shortly after being freed from a camp for illegal immigrants in Kokrajhar.
"We have urged Indian authorities to respect human rights and restore full access to services, including internet and mobile networks," she said.
Extreme political views and decent humour in the cyber world cannot be prohibited, Centre told the Supreme Court on Tuesday while making out a case for blocking outrageous and offensive contents hurting religious sentiments.
Mumbai University Vice-Chancellor Rajan Welukar was on Thursday directed to abstain from attending the office and discharging his duties as the VC with immediate effect, a few months before his retirement.
The Madras high court on Friday dismissed a PIL seeking a direction to the Union government to confer the Bharat Ratna on late AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa, saying it does not want to interfere in such matters.
The SC said that the woman law student did not want to go to her home state Uttar Pradesh.
A Delhi court on Monday allowed the custodial interrogation of two Jawaharlal Nehru University students, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, arrested in a sedition case, by one more day.
The court extended the police custody of the duo, who had allegedly organised a controversial event at the Jawaharlal Nehru University on February 9 where anti-India slogans were said to have been raised, after police contended that they were required for further probe in the case.
The case involved three women college students being burnt alive in the violence following the conviction of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in the Pleasant Stay Hotel case in February 2000.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on each of them over different counts.
Where there's a will, there's a way. This seems to have proven true by a student in Maharashtra who wanted to interview an influential person for her school project.
'I came here to witness the historic message this oath-taking ceremony has sent to the nation and Maharashtra.'
Booked between 2007 and 2011, out of the total 32,700 residential units under various Jaypee Infratech (JIL) projects, at least 20,000 homes are yet to be delivered. Supreme Court documents show that, till last March, Jaypee had issued 7,997 offers of possession to homebuyers while executing only 6,530 sub-lease deeds. These deeds offer homebuyers possession rights but, unlike registration, does not guarantee absolute ownership.
The Bombay High Court, which is hearing petitions filed by parents of ICSE and CBSE students challenging the Maharshtra Government's decision to reserve 90 per cent seats for SSC pass-outs in 11th standard admissions, on Friday, sought details from the top colleges in the city.
Muslims across the country have joined the agitation, apprehending that the move could be a precursor to a country-wide NRC.
The community has taken offence to being wrongly stereotyped as watchmen in the ad which also plays on an exaggerated Hindi accent to seem funny
The Friday morning encounter of all the four accused in the brutal rape-and-murder case of a 25-year-old woman veterinarian last month in Hyderabad triggered a nationwide debate on justice delivery, with one side supporting it as speedy justice and the other raising concerns over 'extra-judicial' measures. Here is a look at the legal status of some rape cases which shook the country.
The CBI alleged that the racketeers arranged solvers for MBBS aspirants.
The Supreme Court on Monday extended till further orders the ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India, facing allegations of involvement in anti-national and terrorist activities. A bench comprising Justices S B Sinha and Cyriac Joseph also transferred the matter to the appropriate bench, which is already hearing similar petitions.
We publish reader reactions to the Supreme Court's decision to uphold 27 per cent reservations for OBCs in IITs, IIMs and other central educational institutions.
India has long struggled to find a suitable definition; activists hope that this case changes norms, reports Geetika Srivastava.
The bench said final hearing in all Aadhaar-related issues would start before another bench in the last week of this month.
The government on Friday told the Supreme Court that it is difficult to block international porn sites in the country and sought more time to consult various ministries to find a solution.
The Delhi high court on Monday refused to give urgent hearing to a PIL seeking lifting of the ban on telecast
The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from the Centre and Delhi Police on a plea seeking an SIT probe and initiation of contempt action against three lawyers who were allegedly caught on camera "bragging and boasting" that they had beaten up JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar and others, including journalists, in a court complex.
'When Arnab Goswami's arrest became a talking point, the case of my husband who was arrested much earlier, was totally ignored.' 'When so many people spoke in support of Goswami, they were silent on a journalist named Siddique Kappan'
Doctor who conducted the post-mortem says the child died of excessive bleeding.
